With more than one million downloads of its public beta and heavy anticipation in the air, Adobe announced that its Photoshop Lightroom photography workflow application will ship on February 19th according to an article on Macworld News. The software, which will sell at a discounted price of US$199 until April 30th and US$299 after April […]
Day: January 29, 2007
An entry over at digg.com reports that MacBook users appear to be receiving free replacements for their MagSafe MacBook power adapters. The adapter, a $79 value, has come under criticism for breaking and fraying for some users. Additional reports on comments have come in claiming that the replacement power adapters are essentially a “version 2.0” […]
Chip manufacturer Intel has announced that it will begin using two “dramatically new” materials that can boost performance as well as reduce power consumption according to an article on MacNN. The new chips, which will feature 45 nanometer transistors, will be used in upcoming versions of of the company’s Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Quad […]
An article on USA Today’s web site discusses how Apple courted cellular telephone provider Verizon Wireless, currently the number two carrier in the United States almost two years ago. The cell phone provider reportedly took umbrage at Apple’s demands of a percentage of the iPhone’s monthly service subscription fees as well as where and how […]
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REVIEW: Micromat TechTool Protege
Like many of you, I’ve done Macintosh support for years. In fact, I used to support several newspapers in Philadelphia and was the guy that arrived on site with two bags. One bag contained a bootable SCSI hard drive with the latest version of the Mac OS installed and every conceivable recovery, repair and diagnostic tool under the sun installed. The other bag contained my PowerBook and a selection of tools.
With this setup I could diagnose and fix most Mac problems on the spot, the problem was that it was heavy and, well, SCSI. Enough said. Today, I don’t do as much field support, but still carry a bootable Firewire hard drive and the original silk-screened Mac OS DVDs that came with my machine.
There’s a new tool that I’ve been using that has the potential to save me the hassle of carrying around that external hard drive: The TechTool Protege from Micromat.